She felt a horrid sensation of sickness for a moment; and then down, down she sank to the bottom of nothing, carrying her flowers and prizes with her.
"She's fainted!" cried some one.

"The poor, little, tired girl has fainted!" A tall young graduate picked up the small, limp figure and carried her off the stage as easily as if she had been a child.

The closing exercises were then resumed, the benediction pronounced and the audience filed out somewhat silently.
Grace and her friends hurried around behind the scenes, where they found Mrs.Gray in the act of placing a smelling-salts bottle to Anne's nostrils, while Tom Gray and David Nesbit were cooling her temples with lumps of ice.

"She is conscious at last!" exclaimed the old lady, as Anne opened her eyes.

"It was entirely too much excitement for this delicate, worn-out child.